Today, I glanced at my watch, mentally prepared to find the time to be late afternoon heading into evening, instead finding it to be five minutes before noon.
I felt like a full day had easily passed already.
And this was just one day of the week.
The rest of it was mainly filled with the whirlwind of work's yearly user conference, and it was a blast all the way through. From internal conferencing with all of my colleagues (we were around 100 present, and even then almost 30% were not there!) to presentations, partying, quizzing, and chatting to users. So, so many great interactions.
Plus, I made a game - and stickers for it - that people played and seemed to enjoy. Did not have that on my bingo board last year, but that was also great fun.
I think I held up remarkably well energy-wise, but perhaps ten minutes into the bus ride back to the office I just closed my eyes slightly and teleported straight to Gothenburg.
Oh, and then the weekend contained a trip to celebrate a birthday. Great fun and got a quick look at a new city, but also two slightly outrageously early mornings.
And thus, the confusion about time this noon. Still, I seem to have managed to function into the afternoon and evening.
I would not be surprised if there is a decent energy dip yet to come. Probably right when I think I must surely have recovered.
Good thing there is a four-day work week coming up.
Thanks to everything going on, I have been spending quite a bit less time online than usual. My podcast queue is getting pretty long, and I have skipped a whole lot of stuff on Mastodon. On the whole, that feels great. It is like I got a soft natural break. Just enough, it seems, to have broken the Mastodon-checking reflex for now. When comparing to these in-person heavy days, it becomes very clear how little actual interaction I have on Mastodon and other online places. I read a lot, and I post a bit, but there sure is not much of actual discussion. There is not really room for it, either.
During bus rides and other travel time, I found myself drifting more toward music listening than podcasts as well.
I guess the need for more words was already well met.